Cholesterol Screening Tuesday

SENIOR NEWS

August 31, 1998|By KAY TALLARITA

With all the summer picnics past, it's a good time to check how your cholesterol is doing. The Johnson Memorial Hospital Wellness Center and the Home and Community Health Services are offering a cholesterol screening at the center on Tuesday.

This will be a complete analysis of your blood cholesterol; blood pressure readings will also be offered. This is all part of our first Health Day of the season, set from 9 to 11:30 a.m. There will be a $5 charge for the cholesterol screening, which is available by appointment only. To schedule an appointment, call the center.

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On Friday, the American Red Cross will conduct a blood drive from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the center.

This is a rather special drive for it is being conducted in memory of Lou Hayward, who was our former town manager. Recently I received a letter from Lou's wife, Susan, and I'd like to share a little part of her letter, in which she talked about how happy her husband was working in Enfield:

``He was energized by the quality of staff he had and by their work ethic, energy and ideas. He felt he had the most professional, well- qualified staff he had ever encountered in his experience as a manager. When he encountered his personal health crisis and began requiring blood products to keep him alive, he was ever so grateful for the gift of life that people (who didn't even know him) had given him. It permitted me to have him on Earth another two years. Knowing how much the gift meant to us, I can positively say that Lou would be very deeply grateful to anyone who has donated that same gift in his name to others they may not know. It is a truly unselfish gift that money cannot buy.''

I hope that people in town will respond to the call for blood for this man who so loved Enfield.

Call the center to schedule an appointment to give blood.

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An exciting and interesting course on current events, which will cover local, state, national and international events, will be sponsored by the University of the Third Age at Asnuntuck Community- Technical College.

There will be 10 sessions on Tuesdays, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, starting Oct. 6. There is a fee of $20, which can be mailed to the Registrar, Continuing Education, Asnuntuck Community-Technical College, 170 Elm St., Enfield, CT 06082.

For more information, call Joseph Scherr at (860) 749-4980.

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The Sammy Kaye Orchestra will be playing on Sept. 29, the day we plan to attend the Eastern States Exposition, popularly known as the Big E. The cost for this trip is $12 and includes bus transportation and gate entrance fee. The bus leaves the center at 9 a.m. and returns at 6 p.m. Call the center to sign up. It's also Senior Center Day and Shriners' Day at the Big E on the 29th.

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The Parkinson Support Group resumes its monthly meetings on Friday after its summer break. The group is open to all those with Parkinson's, their families and caregivers. For more information, call John Fluckiger in Ellington at (860) 870-0874.

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Now that you're thinking of September and some new things you'd like to do, perhaps we can help. On Sept. 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., we will hold an open house to explain our programs and clubs, including Busy Fingers, Buttons and bows; ceramics; Heritage Group; Helen's holiday crafts; oil painting; feats of clay; memory book; exercise; water aerobics; choral group; quilting bee; new focus social group; card groups; Golden Age Club and the Cameo Club of Connecticut.

We'd also like you to meet the Senior Center Advisory board.

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A free seminar is scheduled at the center Sept. 10, at 6:30 p.m. Entitled ``A Family Crisis of the 90s and Beyond,'' it features the facts you need to know about nursing homes and home care costs. Call the center to sign up.